threads or scraps upon that “gorgeous” oriental
rug.

Betty clapped her hands for order. “While
you get ready to begin sewing girls, Miss Street
and Miss Hogarth will tell you what the plans
are. The committee, too, may have some infor-
mation to give you, and I'll call on the chairman
now to speak of them. I am too new as pres-
ident to know much about what the 'Y.W.' does
at Christmas time, except a few of the results.
I will ask Lilian Norris to explain.”

Some of the girls were threading needles and
beginning to sew on edges, or to fit little gar-
ments to their dolls, according to the state of
progress to which the process had arrived.

“I've been talking to Miss Street and Miss
Hogarth, girls, and this is what we are to do.
You know we decided to adopt a family; and
as the Woods family is such a nice one and
needs everything so badly, our leader thinks we
might as well take them. Please put it to vote,
Betty, and then I'll tell the rest.”

Betty, widely smiling at Lilian's business-like
methods, put the question, with a unanimous
“Aye” as the result.

“That is good,” said Lilian. “We filled two
baskets as it happened, at Thanksgiving, and
we were told that both of them 'went to the

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